Tuesday, September 05, 2006

More living with the Mac

I've been delving through many tutorials, tips etc on QuickSilver, the love it or hate it app that either 'makes' or confuses the Mac

So far I'm liking it a lot as my RSI is back big style and QS allows me to do a lot of things from the keyboard without touching the mouse, in fact I've stopped plugging the mouse in at all now, the occasional trackpad use is fine now.

There is still a long way to go I feel but I can 'feel' the usefulness coming, I really want to use the beta features but they seem to crash QS for me which is a shame. Plus I also would love to use the 'send to' feature that would do the same sort of thing but the article I read suggests using cmd-esc which on my machine brings up Front Row, it's all a question of getting your key mappings sorted out I guess !

In all the crashes etc I seem to have lost the ability to have QS popup a small window with what track has just started which was something I really liked, also missing afaik is the ability to browse remote iTunes libraries which is a shame as all my music is on my server!